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Re: [TenTec] Orion II and logging/cluster program

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II and logging/cluster program
From: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>
Reply-to: Ron Castro <ronc@sonic.net>,Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:44:12 -0800
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Even stranger when you consider that CommCAT's author, Howard Nurse, lives 
just up the freeway from me here in Sonoma County.  It's a beautiful program 
with a lot of nice features, but I wanted a program that will immediately 
tell me the worked/confirmed status by band and mode of a DXCC entity by 
just typing in the prefix.   The old DOS Hyperlog did that just fine, but so 
far no program I have found does that *and* controls the Orion II.

Ham Radio Deluxe is an excellent program...works very well with the Orion 
II, but it makes absolutely no differentiation between a DXCC entity that is 
confirmed, and one that is only worked.  'Worked' and 'confirmed' are shown 
in the log, but when making reports, they're all lumped together!  That's a 
shame, since it's otherwise the best program out there, not to mention 
free...

Ron N6AHA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "StellarCAT" <RXDesign@ssvecnet.com>
To: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II and logging/cluster program


> Thanks Ron... interesting your progression from CommCAT to
> Logic... I did the same thing - only the other way around! Logic
> had some things I did not like about it including the DOS look
> (it is written in Basic I believe) and the fact that you could
> not hide columns... CommCAT has been great - I have customized
> it just for my needs... anyway it is funny.
>
> It is however a shame that one has to spend so much money for a
> logging program with radio interface only to find out they don't
> handle one radio out there - so I have to spend more money. N4PY
> looks interesting...
>
> thanks.
>
> g.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II and logging/cluster program
>
>
> : N4PY works very well with the Orion II and also interfaces
> using the Pegasus
> : OLE interface with most programs, including CommCat.  I tried
> the CommCat
> : demo but found it didn't do what I wanted, so I went with
> LOGic until
> : something better comes along.  LOGic also does not interface
> directly with
> : the Orion II but it does work with N4PY with no problem.  Once
> everything is
> : set up, the interface runs very smoothly.
> :
> : LOGic is more designed to work with TRX Mgr, but TRX does not
> support the
> : Orion II and although it can be 'forced' to work with the
> Orion II, it does
> : so very poorly.
> :
> : Ron N6AHA
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